This creepy vid for the Soulsavers‘ “Unbalanced Pieces,” off Broken, their newish (available digitally since August; the physical release date in the U.S. is still on the horizon), second effort featuring former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan, is entertaining in a Debbie-Downer-on-downers kind of way. So if you’re feeling up and want to go even higher, just listen.
Hear that other, higher-pitch voice twining around Lanegan’s softened growl through the chorus? Whispering in the background? Turing the s-sounds in “unbalanced pieces” into a honeyed serpent’s hiss? That’s avant-awesome, Faith No More/Mr. Bungle/Tomahawk/etc. mastermind Mike Patton.
Lanegan’s previously done the duet thing, to wonderful effect, with Isobel Campbell. An album with Mr. Patton could be equally amazing. Perhaps more so. “Unbalanced Pieces” only hints, and beautifully so, at what their affinities for darkness and weirdness could produce.
The beautiful, moody Broken and whatever the enigmatic Lanegan does next will have to do till then.
